Catalight is changing how the world supports people with autism and intellectual disabilities. We’re building a more equitable future through innovative care solutions, research, and open conversations.
Join us as we explore groundbreaking research, hear from experts, and uncover new ways to empower individuals and families. Together, we can create a world where everyone thrives.
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Catalight is changing how the world supports people with autism and intellectual disabilities. We’re building a more equitable future through innovative care solutions, research, and open conversations.
Join us as we explore groundbreaking research, hear from experts, and uncover new ways to empower individuals and families. Together, we can create a world where everyone thrives.
How do you explain someone’s brain? Dr. Liz Angoff does it through strength-based neurodiversity affirming approaches. A former school psychologist who noticed students shined when the environment fit, Liz made it her life’s work to ensure children with developmental disabilities understand that their brains aren’t broken – they’re just different. In finding that some practitioners struggled to explain autism and other diagnoses to children, she wrote two books to help: “The Brain Building Book” and “Brain Building 101.”
Host Lindsey Sneed found her “highway” metaphor most impactful: An idea that the brain is made up of highways (a person’s strengths) and road that’s under construction (challenges that a person can work on and improve).
In a What’s Up With Catalight! first, Lindsey and Liz talk in person about positive framing, ways diagnosticians and clinicians can shape the way children and their families understand a diagnosis, and how the highway metaphor can be used for any person to help them better understand themselves and others.
Specifically for parents, Dr. Angoff’s third book, “Our Brains: A Guide For Understanding What Neurodiversity Means For You,” is set to release this spring. Check out her website, www.explainingbrains.com, to order or for free resources, strategies and interactive tools that help caregivers.
What’s Up With Catalight!
Catalight is changing how the world supports people with autism and intellectual disabilities. We’re building a more equitable future through innovative care solutions, research, and open conversations.
Join us as we explore groundbreaking research, hear from experts, and uncover new ways to empower individuals and families. Together, we can create a world where everyone thrives.
